academia

noun

ac·​a·​de·​mia ˌa-kə-ˈdē-mē-ə 

: the life, community, or world of teachers, schools, and education : academe

scientists in industry and academia

a career in academia

Examples of academia in a Sentence

She found the business world very different from academia.

Recent Examples on the Web

Leaders from media, frontier labs, industry and academia convened at Georgetown University to discuss governing frontier AI, according to a dispatch from WP Intelligence Reporter/Researcher Kendrick Frankel. — Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2026

Leckey moved into academia while in California, serving as the director of the Bloomberg Business Reporting program at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism from 1999 until 2002. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

To chart a path forward, the scientific community must develop a broad understanding, one that considers the past and present and goes beyond the arenas of research and academia in which our organizations typically operate. — Caroline Montojo, STAT, 14 Sep. 2026

Rx Kids builds on these traditions by leveraging the resources of academia to address a major health threat to mothers and children. — Mona Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

Word History

Etymology

latinization of academy (with -ia suggesting a geographic entity), after its Latin etymon, Acadēmia

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing academia

• dark academia

Rhymes for academia

• anaemia
• anemia
• artemia
• ischaemia
• leukaemia
• leukemia
• toxaemia
• toxemia
• uraemia
• uremia
• viremia
• azotemia